More Everything Forever

AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

De: Adam Becker

Narrado por: Greg Tremblay

How Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless growth—pervert public discourse and distract us from real social problems

Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs.

In More Everything Forever, science journalist Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow—and shows why, in reality, there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. Nevertheless, these obsessions fuel fears that overwhelm reason—for example, that a rogue AI will exterminate humanity—at the expense of essential work on solving crucial problems like climate change. What’s more, these futuristic visions cloak a hunger for power under dreams of space colonies and digital immortality. The giants of Silicon Valley claim that their ideas are based on science, but the reality is darker: they come from a jumbled mix of shallow futurism and racist pseudoscience.

More Everything Forever exposes the powerful and sinister ideas that dominate Silicon Valley, challenging us to see how foolish, and dangerous, these visions of the future are.

©2025 Adam Becker (P)2025 Basic Books

Reseñas de la Crítica

"This is a really important contribution to our discussion of the future and what it might hold, and what we should be trying for now. Some of these current popular ideas about the future are foolish enough to distort our current reality, and they deserve to be revealed as such. Becker's book is very entertaining as it exposes how the emperor has no clothes."—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy

Puts words to thoughts that have been haunting me

Adam Becker nails it: clarifying mindsets that have felt unknowable and impossible to understand, revealing consistencies across different movements that might feel disconnected (until you look deeper), and substantiating major areas of concern that too often I felt were "just me." And he does it with colorful, accessible, fact-backed storytelling that brings some big pictures into focus. I'm recommending this book widely and hope you will too.

Reality Check

A necessary overview of the ridiculousness of people like Musk, who himself has the "vision" of a 1950's 4th grader* (I want to make a rocket; I want to make an electric car; I want to live on Mars; etc.).

These individuals are shallow and insulated from reality by their lofty positions and star chambers. They think they really know stuff, and possess wisdom you and I cannot possibly have.

Well, turn that table. There's an adage worth remembering: "Those who say they know, don't know. Those who know they don't know, know." Humility trumps braggadocio. Pun intended. Fantasy and science fiction are fun and can be inspiring but, in worldly affairs, common sense is usually more important.

Read this book along with a fantastic article called "The rise of end times fascism" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor in The Guardian, and you'll have the whole story and understand why all of this hogwash is real to them--while (as the sales blurb here states) distracting us from the really real and challenging issues we face.

*Nothing against 4th graders, of course.